Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land population, 2020 to 2024

Sugar Land lost 993 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +50. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 330th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Sugar Land is 7.2 times that size.

Sugar Land covers 40.47 square miles of land and 2.44 of water, for 2,714 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sugar Land is denser than the typical town.

What county Sugar Land is in

All of Sugar Land's residents live in Fort Bend County, which had 958,434 residents in 2024. Sugar Land holds 11.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sugar Land

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sugar Land by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77478, 77479, 77498. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Sugar Land is

The Census internal point of Sugar Land is at 29.592800, -95.633800. Austin, the capital, is 134.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pearland, TX (129,620 people), 18.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Sugar Land

At 29.59° N, Sugar Land gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Sugar Land daylight page.

Places near Sugar Land

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Stafford, 4.7 miles away, with 17,555 people.